CYBERSECURITY

Information technology (IT) provides exceptional benefits to society. However, the more society relies on IT, the greater the potential disruption and destruction that adversaries can create via malicious cyber activities. Advances in cybersecurity are urgently needed to preserve the Internet’s social and economic benefits—as well as the security of the Nation and its online commercial and public infrastructure – by thwarting adversaries and strengthening public trust in cyber systems.

This document provides FY2020 implementation details for the 2016 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan, developed by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program’s Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) Interagency Working Group (IWG). This Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap is provided per statutory requirement for public provision of this information pursuant to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, Public Law 113-274, Section 201(a)(2)(D), Implementation Roadmap, and under direction from the NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Science and Technology Enterprise. This document accompanies the NITRD Supplement to the President’s FY2020 Budget.

Strong cybersecurity protects American innovation, strengthens our national security, and underpins America’s technology leadership. The FY2019 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap lists Federal agency programs being planned or carried out in fiscal years 2018 and 2019 to meet the objectives of the 2016 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan.